week 8

on Monday i learnt how to pop the ball up in volley ball i also learnt about semi colons and where the right places are to put them. Then on Tuesday we made paper airplanes in science we also learnt how to make this special cream to put on your shoes it makes them water proof you can test it by putting it on your hands.

On Thursday I learnt about multiplying and dividing decimals I also learnt that when dividing decimals you have to use something called a reciprocal then you just use multiplication. Lastly on Friday in science we had to make a octagonal pyramid that was 1 meter high and was free standing I learnt that it had to the right amount of weight other wise it fell down.

week 6

It has been a fun week we have been learning to use ratio in maths i figured out that it just fractions but wrote in a different way. In science Will and I have been making a marble to learn about forces we had to try and make our marble run have an average of 20 seconds our average was 14 seconds we learnt that when you give one force too much power the object rolls to fast or stays still. We also learnt about Isaac newton and how he called everything objects and if it was moving it was in motion and if it were still it was at rest. we also had winter sports i chose football as my sport we won each of our rounds 2-1 against Waikato 2-0 against Puniu and 2-0 against Mangapiko our house won winter sports. Go Waipa!!!!!